27 May 2009 - Portals Pluto 2.0.0

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 2.0.
This is the first GA release of the 2.0 line of Pluto. Version 2.0.0 is our first release conformant to the
Java Portlet 2.0 Standard. All releases prior, such as the 1.1.x releases,
are conformant to the first Java Portlet Specification,
the Java Portlet 1.0 Standard.

9 February 2009 - Portals Pluto 1.1.7

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.7.
This is the eighth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

Pluto 1.1.7 includes a number of minor bugfixes and improvements, thanks to a number of
contributions from the community. They include fixing support of multivalued URL parameters
from the portlet tag library, better session handling hooks for portals and other enhancements.

11 August 2008 - Portals Pluto 1.1.6

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.6.
This is the seventh GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

Pluto 1.1.6 includes a number of minor bugfixes and improvements, thanks to a number of
contributions from the community. The include caching USER_INFO per request, better error
messages when a portlet or portlet application cannot be found, reduce overhead of loading
portlet preferences, attach source to Maven artifacts, and addtional enhancements have been made
to the Pluto tag libraries.

26 March 2008 - Portals Pluto 1.1.5

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.5.
This is the sixth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

Pluto 1.1.5 includes a number of minor bugfixes and improvements, thanks to a number of
contributions from the community. They include enhancements to the Assembler, the Descriptor
implementation now uses JAXP when running on Java 1.5 or greater, Container support has been
improved for other servlet containers besides Tomcat, and addtional enhancements have been made
to the Pluto tag libraries.

7 January 2008 - JSR-286 RI work moves to the Subversion trunk

The work on the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) reference implementation that began in January 2007 in
the 1.1-286-COMPATIBILITY branch of the Pluto Subversion repository has now been merged
back into the current Pluto 1.1 code and moved into the SVN trunk. This code is the
basis for a future Pluto 2.0 release. It has been given a version number of 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
in the root Maven 2 pom.xml.

7 August 2007 - Portals Pluto 1.1.4

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.4.
This is the fifth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

Please note: It was discovered during the 1.1.4 release process that
Pluto 1.1.3 was not binary compatible with Pluto 1.1.2. The 1.1.4
release maintains binary compatability with 1.1.3

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 is the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification now
under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

17 May 2007 - Portals Pluto 1.1.3

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.3.
This is the fourth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

The 1.1.3 GA release includes a simple filter enabling JSP's to include portlets, and an updated
portal url generator. Release notes for the 1.1.3 release can be found at
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v11/release-notes.html.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 is the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification now
under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

21 March 2007 - Portals Pluto 1.1.2

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.2.
This is the third GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of
Pluto 1.0.1 to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal.

The 1.1.2 GA release includes a number of minor bugfixes and enhancements including additional
callbacks in the container, and updated assembly support in the Maven 2 plugin. Release notes
for the 1.1.2 release can be found at http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v11/release-notes.html.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 is the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification now
under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

26 February 2007 - Portals Pluto 1.1.0 released

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Pluto 1.1.0.
This is the first GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0.1
to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal and easier
configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a bare-bones portal included with Pluto.

This release fixes a number of outstanding bugs in Pluto 1.1. The bundled binary release, which
has been updated to use Tomcat 5.5.20, now contains an administrative portlet for registering
custom portlets in Pluto, which is linked to Tomcat's native war deployer.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 is the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification
now under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

12 October 2006 - Portals Pluto 1.1.0 beta2 released

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the release of Pluto 1.1.0 beta2.
This is the second release of the 1.1 version of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0.1
to allow for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal and easier
configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a bare-bones portal included with Pluto.

This release fixes a number of bugs in Pluto 1.1 including ones that prevented standard portlet modes and
window states from functioning properly. We've also updated the binary release to deploy Pluto into
Tomcat 5.5.17.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 is the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification
now under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

1 June 2006 - Portals Pluto 1.1.0 beta1 released

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the release of Pluto 1.1.0 beta1.
This is the first release of the 1.1 version of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0.1.
This refactoring allows for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal and easier
configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a bare-bones portal included with Pluto.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container.
Pluto 1.1 will be the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification
now under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

18 September 2005 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1 General Availability Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the General
Availablility release of Pluto 1.0.1, the reference implementation of
the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168).

Nearly all the outstanding bugs have been fixed in this release.
In addition, the Admin Portlet Application now supports hot deployment
of custom portlets.

24 July 2005 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1-rc4 Released

11 July 2005 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1-rc3 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache
Pluto 1.0.1-rc-2: the third binary release of the reference
implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.

The third release candidate contains several bug fixes and will be
followed by a general availability of Pluto 1.0.1. In addition to bug
fixes, the release contains a new administrative portlet which can be
used to deploy portlets.

22 December 2004 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1-rc2 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache
Pluto 1.0.1-rc-2: the second binary release of the reference
implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.

Community feedback will decide if a further release candidate is
required before a final release.

8 October 2004 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1-rc1 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache
Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1: the first binary release of the reference
implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.

Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1 is considered a release candidate. The promotion of
this release candidate to general availability is expected within the
few weeks, pending feedback from the community.

The Java Portlet Specification defines a Portlet API very similar to
the Servlet API. The API provides a means for aggregating disperate
content sources. The specification addresses security and
personalization considerations and defines a standard with which these
sources, or portlets can be deployed.

Pluto is an embedable portlet container which will typically be bundled
within a fully functional Portal. The Pluto community has developed a
simple portal driver implementation which allows for the testing and
development of portlets with the container. The Pluto testsuite is an
implementation agnostic portlet application which tests several basic
operations of the container in which it is deployed.

The distribution is organized into four releases:

A binary distribution bundled with Tomcat. This distribution is
the easiest to install.

A source distribution.

A binary distribution containing the container library.

A binary tools distribution with the portal driver and testsuite.

September 2004 - Releasing Pluto

The Pluto Team is currently working on the first public release which
is expected by the end of September.

July/August 2004 - Pluto moved out of the Incubator

The Pluto Project is now a sub project under the portals PMC and has
moved out of the incubator. This move comes with some changes regarding
mailing addresses etc. In addition Pluto now uses Subversion instead of
CVS.

May 2004 - Pluto moved issues to JIRA

As most projects in the ASF, we are superseding Bugzilla and using JIRA
to manage project issues. New URL for
Pluto issues.

21 March 2004 - Pluto Declaration of Intent Finalized

The Pluto Community has finalized a declaration of intent which
clarifies the direction with which Pluto development will move forward.

27 February 2004 - Pluto SubProject Documentation Available

The maven subproject documentation is now being generated and included
in the Pluto documentation builds.

10 November 2003 - Pluto Gets a Face Lift

Pluto is now managed by maven and it's website has subsequently recieved
a face lift. http://jakarta.apache.org/pluto now contains additional
information that should be helpfull in establishing this community.